Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases

Baltimore, United States

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Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Sydenham Hospital for Communicable Diseases in Baltimore, Maryland, was constructed between 1922 and 1924 as a specialized facility for treating infectious diseases. Designed by noted Baltimore architect Edward Hughes Glidden, the campus originally comprised seven Italian Renaissance Revival buildings, including the main hospital, administration block, kitchen, nurses' home, laundry with servants' quarters, garage, and powerhouse. A residence for the Director of Medical Research was added in 1939. The hospital, also known as Montebello State Hospital, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The main hospital building was demolished in 2013. The institution's patient records, now held at the National Library of Medicine, document the nature and treatment of communicable diseases during the pre-antibiotic era.